The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must un…

- Marcie Cohen Ferris

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europea…

- Marcie Cohen Ferris

Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the nineteenth-century South. During…

- Marcie Cohen Ferris

Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden, an…

- Marcie Cohen Ferris

Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to eat in places that served the pu…

- Marcie Cohen Ferris

If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family or by your neighbor's family. When I…

- Marcie Cohen Ferris

When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear responses like fried …

- Marcie Cohen Ferris

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

- Marcie Cohen Ferris

Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way thei…

- Marcie Cohen Ferris